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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Echoes Writing Challenge Winner

Well, I've received some wonderful responses to the writing challenge I issued. To choose a winner, I used an online random number generator. And the winner is ...

#11 - Andrea Cumming from Leschenault, Western Australia! She won a $5 discount from our AuthorOne online bookstore. Congrats Andrea!!!

The FMQ Challenge will be done in a couple days. Those of you who have completed the 14 day continuous FMQing, let me or Joanne know by leaving a comment. Two lucky winners will be chosen sometime this week.

For my bits of FMQ over the past (4 - really?) days, I worked a small bit everyday on the Star Table topper. I finished the last two corners and then put feathers in one of the big wedges. I still have a bit of background work to do there. That was three days, actually. The fourth day, I took a break and fooled around with an old sample I had. It was one of the first FMQ things I did (you can tell by the funny shaped feather petals). I wanted to see if I could make something ugly into something decent. I did okay. If I go liberated or artsy with the rest of this piece, I think it'll work. I can also add embellishments to it to hide what ugly is still there. I liked working with this because it enabled me to see how far I'd come. Just look at that echoing!!! I'm not fantastic now, but I'm loads better than that! I think I'll try some alternate coloring in the echoes to see if I can get that better looking.

As far as my writing, I've been hard at work on the Grand Falls photo book. I'm happy to report that I think it's finished. We'll see when the next proof copies come.

4 comments:

Thats fantastic Wendy - Andrea will be delighted to learn this in the morning. Hoping for a good week for her...this may start her off well :)I like your FMQ .. Looking forward to seeing it when completed .

I'm done my FMQ challenge today and I'm just writing my final FQG blogpost now. It'll be posted this evening. Whew, that was a lot of stitching. I'm so impressed with your piece. Now, I can say "I could do that!"

I did it! 14 days of FMQ, read about it at http://toadintheholestudio.blogspot.com/2010/06/fmq-challenge.htmlIt really was a challenge to make sure I did it every day but now I am on a roll and I hope I can keep going.

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